Description
Grounded in a rich combination of archival sources and oral interviews, this book examines relations within and between chiefdoms to bring wider concerns of African studies into focus, including land, violence, chieftaincy, ethnic and nationalist politics, and development. Colonial indirect rule, segregation, and apartheid attempted to fix formerly fluid polities into territorial "tribes" and ethnic identities, but the Zulu practice of ukukhonza maintained its flexibility and endured.
By exploring what Zulu men and women knew about and how they remembered ukukhonza, Kelly reveals how Africans envisioned and defined relationships with the land, their chiefs, and their neighbors as white minority rule transformed the countryside and local institutions of governance.
About the Author
Jill E. Kelly is an Assistant Professor of African history at Southern Methodist University. She has published articles in the Journal of Southern African Studies, African Historical Review, and Gendering Ethnicity in African Women's Lives.
Book Information
ISBN 9781611862850
Author Jill E. Kelly
Format Paperback
Page Count 396
Imprint Michigan State University Press
Publisher Michigan State University Press
Weight(grams) 612g